Great Lakes

Many mental health professionals are reporting how climate change is beyond their scope of practice. The rapidly changing climate is a growing concern in therapy sessions.

Today, a conversation with a man who has made it his life mission to keep the Great Lakes’ Indigenous language alive.

The need for such research is urgent. Bacteria draining into recreational waters from overflowing wastewater treatment plants, livestock and poultry farms, and city streets and parking lots results in hundreds of beach closings annually across the five Great Lakes. Phosphorus running off farm fields and from big dairy, hog, and poultry operations causes harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and other lakes across the region.

Last summer, contaminated sludge from a fire at a chemical plant reached Lake Ontario. The spill report raises questions about what the government told the public.

Hot summers do not end water shutoffs in some Great Lakes cities. When struggling people need water the most, it might not be available.

At protests in Lansing and other cities, activists were less focused on the events of 14 years ago than on the current fight over the future of Enbridge’s Line 5.

An EPA report says climate change-driven weather patterns are having a growing impact on all aspects of life across most of the U.S., and Michigan is no exception.

Today, what a federal investigation uncovered about missing money at Detroit’s Riverfront Conservancy.Also, the free ride that never seems to end for companies bottling and selling Michigan water.And for your Pride Month enjoyment, artist Orion Story, whose offbeat style and references made her a hit on "RuPaul’s Drag Race."

Despite being on the Great Lakes, the cities of Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Windsor, and Toronto have all been labeled urban heat islands.

In Canada, no rule or law prevents many unmonitored and invisible substances -or "contaminants of emerging concern"- from entering our water, including the Great Lakes.